Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a closed-end investment company (the “Company”), in a $175 million offering of floating rate senior notes (the “Series HH Senior Notes”) to qualified institutional buyers in a private offering pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933. The Series HH Senior Notes mature on August 19, 2016 and pay interest at a rate of 3-month LIBOR plus 1.25% per annum. The transaction closed on August 22, 2013 (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Nagendra (“Nick”) Setty has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Setty will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented Hellman & Friedman in its acquisition of a minority interest in CarProof, a leading provider of used vehicle history reports in Canada. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed (more…)
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Jefferies LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers on a Rule 144A offering by Spansion LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spansion Inc. of $150 million aggregate principal amount of its 2% exchangeable senior notes due 2020 (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the opening of its Silicon Valley office. Scheduled to officially open its doors September 9, 2013, Winston & Strawn Silicon Valley is the seventeenth global office, and ninth U.S. office for the firm. The Silicon Valley office is a key step in expanding Winston & Strawn’s intellectual property litigation practice and presence on the West Coast (more…)
With a focus on the ever-changing needs of our clients’ workplaces, Nixon Peabody has further strengthened its labor and employment practice with the arrival of new partner Karen D. Ng, a nationally recognized leader in employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Ms. Ng joins Nixon Peabody’s San Francisco office from Sedgwick LLP, where she led the employee benefits practice (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. as joint lead managers in connection with Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia’s issuance of $500 million of its 5.950% notes due 2023 (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, today announced that Tracy Warren has joined the firm’s San Diego office as a shareholder and Kathryn Quarles Gray has joined as an associate. Warren and Quarles Gray, who join Ogletree Deakins from Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, will bolster the firm’s Sports & Entertainment, Employment Law, and Higher Education practice groups. Warren represents employers in a range of industries including collegiate and amateur athletics, entertainment, financial services, telecommunications, medicine, non-profit, and education. She is the third shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins’ San Diego office which opened earlier this year (more…)
VLP Law Group LLP announced today that Dianne Reed has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Group (more…)
Paul Hastings represented Fox Factory Holdings Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high performance suspension products, backed by Compass Group Diversified Holdings (NYSE:CODI) in connection with its initial public offering of common stock and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on Control4’s initial public offering. Control4 is a leading provider of personalized automation and control solutions that allows users to control virtually any device in a home or business, automatically (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, continues to expand its top-rated national litigation team with the addition of John W. McGuinness to the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation Division. He comes from BuckleySandler LLP and joins his former colleague Donna L. Wilson, who came to Manatt in late July (more…)
